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submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Nonstimulant medication is also not a cure. There is no cure for ADHD. It's like saying there's a cure for schizophrenia (not comparing the two as issues). Some things don't get cured, they just get the severity lessened.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I don't think they implied it was a cure.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I know they didn't. I was adding on to what they said.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

The thing that needs to be cured is the dizzying array of forces aimed at crushing ADHD people to pieces, at least in the US (can’t speak for other places).

You ever look at the number of people in jail with ADHD? Society is trying to kill us off I don’t really think there is another sober read of the statistics.

In other words there is a cure for ADHD to a large extent but it doesn’t involve curing the person with ADHD.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I agree 100%. People who are neurodivergent are demonized and treated very unfairly and it's disgusting.

[-] argv_minus_one@mstdn.party 2 points 7 months ago

@FlyingSquid @supersquirrel

It's tribalism. “If it looks like a person, but it behaves differently from me, then it's an outsider or a defect. Either way, it's bad for the tribe, so get rid of it.” Definitely one of humanity's darkest traits.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I think it goes beyond tribalism. It's about a baseline of normality society has come up with in recent times. People with ADHD and autism weren't treated as complete others before those diagnoses existed. They were considered eccentric, but not considered "different from the in-group."